“We heard helicopters and my daughter looked out the window and said ‘Mom, that’s the police, they’re looking for someone,'” said Liduvina Santos. “That really concerns me, because I have children, I have grandchildren. This is a nice, quiet neighborhood. To think that someone so close to my home is on the loose and probably dangerous, is he armed, we don’t know, it frightens me.”

“He’s a good guy, I don’t know, he might’ve gotten caught up in something bad. I just hope he’s all right,” a man who said he was a friend of McMenamin, who wanted to remain anonymous, told Macedo. “I know one thing – he ain’t violent.”